End of Reconstruction/The New South Review

What career did most of the freed African Americans take, due to limited opportunities, after the end of slavery?

• plantation owners

• sharecroppers on large plantations

• successful owners of their own individual farms

• professions such as doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc.

Real progress towards equality for freedmen and women began when which group gained control of Congress?

• Democrats

• Populists

• Radical Republicans

• Abolitionists

What did "all white" governments in the South create at the beginning of RECONSTRUCTION in order to limit the 14th amendment rights of African Americans?

• Separate But Equal

• Integration

• Slavery

• Black Codes

Which of the following was created by white southerners to resist efforts to give equality and political power to Black Americans during Reconstruction?

• The Confederate Army

• The Sons of the Revolution

• The Proud Boys

• The Ku Klux Klan

Who did the Ku Klux Klan consider to be their enemy during Reconstruction?

• Black Americans

• Republicans who were sympathetic towards Black Americans

• Carpetbaggers (Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction)

• Democrats

What events led to the end of Reconstruction?

• An economic depression (Reconstruction was expensive)

• A loss of interest in Reconstruction by the North

• The contested 1876 presidential election, which led to the Compromise of 1876.

• The attack on Fort Sumter

How did the KKK attempt to suppress Black voters during Reconstruction?

• Threats, intimidation, and violence

• They passed Jim Crow Laws

• They didn't

• The sued the government in order to change the laws

At the beginning of Reconstruction, President Johnson tried to resist Reconstruction efforts by seeking to have southern states set up...

• State governments with both white and Black American representatives

• State governments with only Black American representatives

• State governments with all White representatives

• No state governments at all

What were the terms of the Compromise of 1877?

• Democrats agreed to allow Rutherford B. Hayes to become President

• Federal troops were removed from the south

• Democrat Samuel J. Tilden won the election

• None of these

Which of the following resulted from the Compromise of 1877?

• Reconstruction ended

• Southern states began to pass Jim Crow laws

• Southern states passed laws that limited or denied Black Americans the right to vote

• Everyone in America was happy and could move on from the Civil War